Compendium of Cost Data for
Environmental Remediation Technologies
– The compendium is published Environmental Technology Cost-Savings Analysis
Project (ETCAP), through the Los Alamos National Laboratory of the U.S. DOE. The
compendium provides a representative sample of cost information for both conventional
and innovative remediation technologies for the treatment of hazardous, radioactive,
and mixed wastes. The compendium describes approximately 250 commercial or pilot-scale
remedial projects. Cost data for the projects were gathered from a variety of sources
(including Roundtable remediation case studies) and summarized to provide actual cost
summaries, site characteristics, and comments about details of remedial projects. The
cost information provided varies in level of detail.

Hazardous, Toxic, and Radiological
Waste (HTRW) Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
– The HTRW WBS is a product of the Interagency Cost Estimating Group (ICEG),
which consists of representatives from the USACE, Navy, Air Force, EPA, and DOE. The
WBS was developed in three sections; studies and design (System 32), remedial actions
(System 33), and operations and maintenance (System 34), and has been used as a common
cost structure by federal agencies to assist in collecting historical costs. The ICEG
mission continues with maintaining this structure with upgrades including new
technologies and cost and performance data requirements.

Tri Services Automated Cost
Engineering Systems (TRACES)
– TRACES is the Tri-Services umbrella linking all automated cost engineering
systems and their associated data bases. This web site, operated by the USACE
Huntsville Engineering and Support Center, provides access to Micro Computer Assisted
Cost Engineering System (MCASES) software and links to cost estimating and budgeting
tools, such as Historical Analysis Generator (HAG), Life Cycle Cost, PC-Cost,
Parametric Building Module, and Scheduling Interface, for authorized users supporting
the DoD Military program and the Corps of Engineers Civil Works program.

USACE Area Cost Factors
– Area cost factors (ACF) are used to adjust average historical facility costs
to a specific project location, and to increase accuracy in comparing and projecting
costs at a various locations. Once every two years, USACE surveys the prices of 34
items in a "market basket" in 188 cities. The results of the survey and consideration
of several matrix factors are used in developing the ACF.

U.S. DOE/EM Applied Cost Engineering (ACE) Team
– The ACE Team was established to promote continuous cost improvements through
dissemination of cost engineering tools, methods, techniques, best practices, and
lessons learned across the Environmental Restoration (ER) complex.